The domain name Traffic.com has been registered since the 20th of September 1994, making it a ripe old age of 28 years old.
The domain name is currently owned by Here Global B.V. better known as Here Technologies, you can learn more about them below.
HERE Technologies (trading as HERE) is a multinational group dealing with mapping, location data, and related automotive services to individuals and companies. It is majority-owned by a consortium of German automotive companies (namely Audi, BMW, and the Mercedes-Benz Group) and American semiconductor company Intel whilst other companies also own minority stakes. Its roots date back to U.S.-based Navteq in 1985, which was acquired by Finland-based Nokia in 2007. HERE is currently based in The Netherlands.
HERE captures location content such as road networks, buildings, parks, and traffic patterns. It then sells or licenses that mapping content, along with map-related navigation and location services to other businesses such as Alpine Electronics, Garmin, BMW, Oracle Corporation, and Amazon.com. This third-party licensing constitutes the core of the firm’s business. In addition, HERE provide platform services to smartphones. It provides location services through its own HERE applications, and also for GIS and government clients and other providers, such as Bing, Facebook, and Yahoo! Maps. HERE has maps of nearly 200 countries, offers voice-guided navigation in 94 countries, provides live traffic information in 33 countries, and has indoor maps available for about 49,000 unique buildings in 45 countries. The company is also working on self-driving technology.
Another interesting domain name owned by the company is their matching dot com Here.com, but hey if you own Traffic.com then you want to own Navigation.com too right?
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